The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-03
A Mile and a Quarter From
Entrance to Exit.
HOW THE HUMAN TIDE BUSHES
other Fakirs than Those In Wall
Street-"Be Them Pipes Hoiier?"
-Music-Chuaks OF Color.

pIOOhSs I1OLh CoSAA S4NAN
street there trckled rivulet. The cur
rent was damned for a moment at the
entrance to the bridge roadway by q
big truck-which, in its turn, was
roundIy damned-and then the tide
swept on over the stones, up the steps
upon the big bridge. Just here the
stream divided. The la ge porto
poured upstairs f, the cars, but the
more sensible minority rippled around
to the promenade.
Between 4 80 and $50 last night 3,7S4
people passed either cent or ticket
through the window. to the eroupier
and walked out upon the nest prOmen
ade in America. OF these 2,738 we're
men, among whom canes and high hats
were not infrequent, and the balance
wore bonnets. Twas a motley crowd
but a thoroughly New York one. a lit
lie man with harsh cough and a big
ulster collar concealing his ears; a very
tell man with a ruby nose and purple
rivulets in his face: another who took a
pinch of snuff and sneezed: then three
Coquettish girls, who tripped along as
sprightly as bevy of quail. Then a
rosebud in a blue dress and a red-rid-
inghood, and whose forehead was partly
eoncealed6y corn-colored hair, led by
a maternal hand.
us it very far to the other side,
mammal"
Yes, dear, it's a long walk; but if you
get tired III carry you"
The little feet, so small that both
might nestle in one caressing hand, "
battered out upon the big bridge in the
gathering twilight.
| A railroad contractor in charge OF
eighteen laborers, whom he was taking
to Brooklyn boarding house, stopped
his gang and collected cent from each
man. Then he went TO the ticket agent
and bought twenty-five tickets for 5
cents. The contractor distributed tick
cts among his hirelings, who meekly
deposited them as they passed through,
and the contractor realized Is cents, his
own ticket, and had six tickets for fut-
ure use. There are other fakirs than
those in Wall Street.
But now came Lank Liz, as she is
known by the bridge employees. She
shot along with Amazonian strides, and
did the mile and one-auarter between
the entrance and the exit in fourteen
minutes. Then there came an old
| WOLudn WnO SuSpcClcQ VI UcluS GuS
Mrs. Cunningham who was associated
with the famous BurdelI murder case.
Her regularity is showing policemen.
She never'loses an opportunity to push
one of these blue coated locust wielders,
and goes ten feet out of her way to do
so. TDey came in in pairs, they came
in crowds, these health-seeking and
economical pedestrians, and the electric
lights were Lit to show them the way.
There are many strangers on the big
bridge every day, and they ask some
very funny questions: 5
''How does the cable work?''
"Well, you see them little wheels?
They're worked by machinery, all the
cable bein' tied together in tn middle,
that makes the whole thing 60. Seer"
"Jes' ez l tho't. But how did they
fasten them long ropes up to the big
RIO Fob, they did that BY hydroylic pres
sure.
Jes' ez 1 tho't. Them big pipes! How
did they git them on top o. them pill
lers?'
''They rowed 'em over the river in a
rowboat and h'isted 'em up with block
an tackle.n
"Jes' ez tho't. Must hey bin a big
block" -
Twas. Bigger'n barn do IT."
BE them big pipes solid or holler ?"
'Holler, of course. -Ye see, they're
used for holdin' up the bridge and for
supplyin' Brooklyn folks with water.
Cause they've got the ocean on one
side an the East River on the other"
The answer came slowly. The "Jes'
ez tho't" was rather incredulous, but
1t came nevertheless.
The blind led the blind out upon the |
bridge sometimes, as for Instance:
I'VE see that ERE i'Iand off there |
(poiDting to Governors Island); well, |
that's Blackwell's Island an that little |
brick thing on the end is the prison"
That ERE Bartholomew statue mus.
be forty foot high ~
Him. contemptuously Its fifty |
six foot high. l seen tn fggers in tn |
almanac"
Does them ere boats go acrost tn
ocean," (alluding 70 one OF the Mallory |
steamers lying at its pier.) --.
Cert, fer sure they do. They burn |
ton O. coal, too. That's more'n |
you'd burn in your hickory stove in four
years"
"Now, want to know!'
But the bridge is not. lacking in |
drama. Not loSg since, late one dark |
night, pedestrian was coming froui the |
side. The watchman saw him
from the tower. Suddenly he started on |.
q run, aud shouted, "Policei pclicel"
some foul play had been going
On, the Waterman drew his club. But
be didn't use i, for he saw by the mans
staring eyeballs and paild face that he
was mad with fear.
Didn't you see them 2" he painted.
: hey'ye been running on that iron
york. One OF them jumped down. and
slapped me on the shoulder and SAID:
George Brown, runi' An'you can bet
her life did run
The Waterman took him in his little !,
and tried to calm MIN. He I.
partly gained control of himself until
he vat :hmsn lift him to make his
ound. On his. return he found the
,oor fellow crouching IN the corner, and
pointing his shaking finger at an imagi-
larry scene on the floor.
Can It you see EN- playin' pool over
here2"
No, ne didn't see EN- playing pool,
nd he passed his patient, who was SAT- I
rring from the James J&mbs, along TO !
be first policeman, who in turn passed :
i'm TO the next, aud so on until he was :
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